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Will religion ever disappear?

If somebody were to ask me this question, my short-hand, non-researched reply would be: probably not.

I think that humanity currently seems set to become more and more secular as religiosity drops in the newer, younger generations; global birth rates start to show signs of coming under control and even slowing, which we know tends to have a positive effect on poverty; and as poverty decreases, so does religiosity. All these indications are pretty positive.

But humans are pattern-seeking mammals, and we have a tendency to believe the strangest things for very bad reasons, even if they are fairly smart and well educated; so I tend to think that religion will stick around for a number of reasons.

Over at BBC Future, Rachel Nuwer takes a look at the question referring to what various books and papers have to say on the subject, and they tend…

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Thank you, first of all, for allowing me to reblog your post. Haven’t you noticed that the world seems to be regressing back to the middle ages? The middle east still uses religion to control and persecute its followers. Here in the U.S., people like Michelle Bachman can get elected to public office despite her radical religious beliefs. I could go one about examples that we all know about. I think ignorance is one reason religion continues to exist. People without an education beyond high school are not equipped to think critically about such issues. They want to believe that Jesus is sitting on their shoulder. But I learned in college that ancient religions such as the Incas and Aztecs believed in their gods with as much fervor as today’s religious adherents. Nevertheless, if you ask one of them if they thought the Incas and Aztecs were correct in their religious beliefs, you would hear an emphatic no. But in reality, religion is no different than superstitions practiced by ancient civilizations. It has just been institutionalized so that even the president must profess his (her) religious affiliation if they expect to gain a large percentage of the population’s trust.

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